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Woman's Hour

Weekend Woman's Hour: Sarah Ransome, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Donna Ward

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

British woman Sarah Ransome says she wanted to be at Ghislaine Maxwell trial when it started: not to testify but to see justice take its course. Like the four women who gave evidence, she says she's also a victim of Epstein's and Maxwell's. She tells us more about her story and Harriet Wistrich, founder of Centre for Women's Justice discusses the wider impact this case could have.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier, is a world renowned human rights and climate change activist, who has made it her life's work to protect her Inuit culture and the Arctic regions where Inuit live, in Greenland, Canada and Alaska. She was born in Arctic Canada and launched the first legal petition linking climate change to human rights.

We discuss the word 'spinster' and what it really means with Australian author Donna Ward. Her new book She I Dare Not Name: A Spinster's Meditations on Life., explores the meaning and purpose she has fought to find in a life lived entirely accidentally without a partner or children.

BBC History is launching a 100 objects collection to mark 100 years of the BBC in 2022. Head of History Robert Seatter gives us a sneak peak into a few objects which represent the history of women at the BBC including a 1930s job advert looking to recruit the first women TV announcers, a cookbook by Madhur Jaffrey and a 1920s scrapbook from Evelyn Dove, the first black female singer to perform on BBC.

British women weren't allowed to visit the Antarctic until 1983 but now scores of women are making major contributions to polar science. Morgan Seag who has just submitted her PhD in gendered institutional change in 20th century Antarctic science to the University of Cambridge and Jo Johnson who has visited Antarctica seven times tell us more.

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Hello I'm Andrea Catharwood and welcome to Womensower from podcasts. gone. Following the verdict in Galane Maxwell's trial, we'll hear my conversation with

0:55.3

Sarah Ransom, a British woman repeatedly raped by Epstein and abused by Maxwell.

1:00.7

Plus we meet a woman who's made it her life's work to protect her Inuit culture

1:05.6

and the Arctic. And what do you think of the word spinster?

1:09.7

Reclaiming is such a curious word because it sounds like I want to put a gloss on it and I don't want to say or

1:17.1

or say to anyone really that I'm spinster and proud because I'm not spinster and proud. I am Spinster.

1:25.0

Australian author Donna Ward tells us about her new book.

1:29.0

Gillane Maxwell remains in prison yet to be sentenced. We got the verdict on Thursday.

1:35.0

She's guilty of recruiting and trafficking young girls to be sexually abused by

1:39.5

Jeffrey Epstein. She was found guilty on five of the six counts she faced, including the most serious

1:45.7

charge that of sex trafficking a minor. Her family have said she will appeal. Four victims

1:51.6

of Maxwell and Epstein testified in court.

1:54.3

After the verdict, the only one to have waived her anonymity,

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